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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
With Abdel Bari Atwan, editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm, an Arab world digital news and opinion website, and author of the book Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate. About the book: ISIS stunned the world when it overran an area the size of Great Britain on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border in a matter of weeks and proclaimed … Continued
From yesterday’s shooting deaths of the television crew in Virginia to police violence nationally and to ISIS executions, the internet is saturated with videos of extreme violence. Today, a perspective about media, social media and violence with Pat Blanchfield. He writes about gun culture, violence and politics on his blog Carte Blanchfield. Then, we’ll talk … Continued
A wide-ranging discussion on the history, understanding, and application of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” In addition, it forbids states from denying any person “life, liberty or property, without due process of law” or to “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection … Continued
With Robert Pollin, American economist, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and founding co-director of its Political Economy Research Institute. And Gerard Roland, Belgian economist, and a professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley, on China’s transition to state capitalism from communism.
As tensions flare once again in the Korean Peninsula, we’ll look at the history of the Korean Conflict with Paul Liem, chair of the Korea Policy Institute.
David Kertzer, Professor of Social Science and Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University and author of The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe. About the book: The Pope and Mussolini tells the story of two men who came to power in 1922, … Continued
Sven Beckert, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, Professor of History at Harvard University, and author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History. About the book: The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is … Continued
Chelsea Manning is facing a disciplinary board at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and could face solitary confinement for possessing unapproved reading material. We speak to one of Manning’s lawyers, Nancy Hollander, of the ACLU. Then, Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, Emerita Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and author of Jonas Salk, A life. About the book: When a waiting … Continued
With Nathaniel Popper, reporter at the New York Times covering the intersection of Wall Street and Silicon Valley and author of the book Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money. About the book: A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of … Continued
Dani McClain of the Nation Magazine on Black Lives Matter and the Bernie Sanders Campaign. Geoffrey Kabaservice, Republican historian on Republican Primary.
